Improvement in temporary binders



J. F. ADAMS.

Temporary Binders. No. 131,203. Patented Sep.10,1872.

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JOHN F. ADAMS, OF IRVINGTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN TEMPORARY BINDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,219? dated September 10, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Temporary Binder, invented by JOHN F. ADAMS, of Irvington, in the county of VVestchester and State of New York.

Figure l is a face view of my improved paper file and binder. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 0 c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. i

This invention relates to a new box or re ceptacle for letters, bills, and other similar papers which are to be preserved and filed.

The invention consists in the use of a box whose one corner is cut'away so that the cor- 11ers of the papers may project at such corner, to-be conveniently punctured and tied, sewed, or otherwise closed together.

A in the drawing represents a box of wood or other material, large enough to receive letters, bills, or other papers of the size to be filed, and sufliciently high to admit a considerable quantity of such papers, one upon the other. This box is made with an aperture, a,

hook, or other device at one corner whereby it can be suspended from a nail or pin to be a sort of hanging bracket. The face I) of the box A is made detachable, being secured by hooks and eyes d or equivalent means, and does not quite extend to the upper corner, leaving thus the upper part of the box open for the insertion of the papers. For the sam reason the ledges or sides of the box are omitted at the top. The lower corner of this box is cut offileaving an opening, through which the corners of the papers B, filed, will protrude, as shown in both figures. The papers are clamped within the box by a thumb-screw,

O, which is fitted through a stationary lower portion, 6, of the face of the box, or through the plate b, and bears against a bar, f, which it crowds against the paper, as shown in Fig. 2.

When the papers contained in the box are to be removed their lower projecting corners are first fastened together by threads, eyelets, or other means, and thereby worked into a complete file, which, when removed from the box, has all its parts bound at the corner in W'itnesses:

A. V. BRmsEN, T. B. MOSHER. 

